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The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 61

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he stuff, or dove-tailing instead of square. Prepare two slips ofwood, each about two inches long, which shall be of a shape tojust fill the groove when slipped in at the end. These, instead of 44 AMERICAN HOUSE-CARPENTER. pins, are to be attached, one to each of the moveable nuts witha screw,… … Fig. 82. 117.— To describe an ellipsis by ordinates. Let a b and c d,(Fig. 82,) be given axes. With c e or e d for radius, de-scribe the quadrant,/g- h ; divide / h, a e and e b, each into alike number of equal parts, as at 1, 2 and 3; through thesepoints, draw ordinates, parallel to cd and/g- ;…

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